Re: lilypond-book

[David Kastrup]

"Phil Holmes" <address@hidden> writes:

> From: "Martin Tarenskeen" <address@hidden>
> To: "lilypond-user mailinglist" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 11:40 AM
> Subject: lilypond-book
>
>> ERROR: In procedure primitive-load-path:
>> ERROR: Unable to find file "lily.scm" in load path
>> command failed: /bin/lilypond --formats=ps -dbackend=eps  -I  "."
>> -I 
>> ".." --formats=eps --pdf -dinclude-eps-fonts -dgs-load-fonts
>> -deps-box-padding=3.000000   -dread-file-list -dno-strip-output-dir

/bin/lilypond is _quite_ an unusual path to call LilyPond from.  It may
be some Fedora symlink scheme that makes it available there, but it
would likely confuse LilyPond's mechanism of finding its installed
files.

>> "/home/m.tarenskeen/Muziek/Lilypond/lilypond-book/out/snippet-names--4052591517874573391.ly"
>> Child returned 1
>>
>>
>> What could I be doing wrong or am I missing something?
>
> Does the simple example above compile:
>
> \begin{lilypond}
> \relative c' {
>  c2 e2 \times 2/3 { f8 a b } a2 e4
> }
> \end{lilypond}

Without lily.scm?  No chance.

-- 
David Kastrup